New
Advanced Study Projects during the Spring 2010 semester
CORPORATE
RESTRUCTURING - 1 CU
FNCE 891
Professor Mark Jenkins will offer "Corporate Restructuring"
The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the financial,
legal, and strategic issues associated with the corporate restructuring
process. The main focus of the course will be the restructuring of financially
distressed firms. We will survey a variety of restructuring methods
(out-of-court workouts, exchange offers, prepackaged bankruptcies, Chapter
11 bankruptcies, international insolvency practices) available to troubled
firms and study the dynamics of the restructuring process through the
lens of a number of historical and current case studies. The course
will provide students with tools to identify and value distressed securities,
understand the legal framework governing bankruptcy and reorganization,
and navigate the key strategic issues facing managers and investors
in distressed companies.
PREREQUISITES for this course are FNCE 726-Advanced Corporate Finance
and FNCE 728-Corporate Valuation or permission from the professor.
This MBA course and registration will be through the MBA Auction.
MANAGING
FIXED INCOME SECURITIES - 1 CU
FNCE 894
Professor Scott Richard will offer his “Managing Fixed Income
Portfolios” course this coming spring. This course focuses on
managing efficient fixed income portfolios. The goal will be to infer
market forecasts from current bond prices. Use analytical models to
find the market forecasts and the prices the market is offering for
bearing the different types of risks.
PREREQUISITE for this course IS Fixed Income
Professor Richard will teach one MBA section and one Undergraduate section,
the MBA section will be through the MBA Auction.
PRIVATE EQUITY - .50 CU - Quarter 2
[3-15-10 - 4-27-10]
FNCE 895
The course will be a survey of the private equity asset class. Its objective
is to provide an understanding of the concepts, agents, and institutions
involved in the late stage corporate private equity market in the U.S.
and around the globe. It will examine the buyout market and the activities
of buyout funds from the differing perspectives of private equity investors,
private equity fund sponsors, and managers of the portfolio companies.
The course topics will follow the private equity cycle by studying representative
transactions in the U.S., Europe, and emerging markets.:
Private Equity Structure and Fundraising; Negotiation, Adequate Deal
Structures; Investment Origination, Due Diligence, and Valuing of Private
Equity interests; Value Creation and Management of Portfolio Companies
and Investment Exit.
PREREQUISITES for this course are FNCE 726-Advanced Corporate Finance
and FNCE 751-Finance of Buyouts and Acquisitions or permission from
the professor.
Enrollment for this course is by application only - Application
submission deadline is Friday, November 27th, 2009.
Professor
N. Bulent Gultekin - Application